Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Froitzheim

Kontakt

Poppelsdorfer Schloss
Raum 2.134
Telefon: +49 228 73- 2463
E-Mail: niko.froitzheim [at] uni-bonn.de

http://www.freiwillig-fuers-klima.de/

Öffentliche Ringvorlesung von Universität Bonn und Students for Future Bonn: „Aspekte der Erderwärmung“, Sommersemester 2020 (Playlist):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5_7D6-sqU0 list=PLz02QuHhvJgnnL9GkCjR9Ngkx3iXLPx1D

Vorlesung zum Klimawandel aus geologischer Sicht (2018):

https://youtu.be/kOlX2os_gyQ

Die Folien dazu: 

Publikationen

2020

• Fassmer, K., Martinet, I., Miladinova, I., Sprung, P., Froitzheim, N., Fonseca, R.O.C.,
  Münker, C., Janák, M., Kullerud, K. (2020): Lu-Hf geochronology of
  ultra-high-pressure eclogites from the Tromso-Nappe, Scandinavian Caledonides:
  evidence for rapid subduction and exhumation. International Journal of Earth
  Sciences, DOI: 10.1007/s00531-020-01866-0.
• Ellero, A., Malusà, M.G., Ottria, G., Ouanaimi, H., Froitzheim, N. (2020): Transpressional structuring of the High Atlas belt, Morocco. Journal of Structural Geology, 135, 104021, DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2020.104021.
  

2019

• Hauke, M., Froitzheim, N., Nagel, T.J., Miladinova, I., Fassmer, K., Fonseca, R.O.C., Sprung, P., Münker, C. (2019): Two high-pressure metamorphic events, Variscan and Alpine, dated by Lu–Hf in an eclogite complex of the Austroalpine nappes (Schobergruppe, Austria). International Journal of Earth Sciences, doi:10.1007/s00531-019-01708-8.

2018

2017

• Fassmer, K., Klonowska, I., Walczak, K., Andersson, B., Froitzheim, N., Majka, J., Fonseca, R.O.C., Münker, C., Janák, M., Whitehouse, M. (2017): Middle Ordovician subduction of continental crust in the Scandinavian Caledonides – an example from Tjeliken, Seve Nappe Complex, Sweden. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 172:103, doi:10.1007/s00410-017-1420-7.
• Klonowska, I., Janák, M., Majka, J, Petrík, I., Froitzheim, N., Gee, D.G., Sasinkova, V. (2017): Microdiamond on Åreskutan confirms regional UHP metamorphism in the Seve Nappe Complex of the Scandinavian Caledonides. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 35, 541-564, doi: 10.1111/jmg.12244.
• Kossak-Glowczewski, J., Froitzheim, N., Nagel, T.J., Pleuger, J., Keppler, R., Leiss, B., Regent, V. (2017): Along-strike shear-sense reversal in the Vals-Scaradra Shear Zone at the front of the Adula Nappe (Central Alps, Switzerland). Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 110, 677-697.
• Yosefnejad, D.M., Nagel, T.J. & Froitzheim, N. (2017): Three-dimensional modelling of folds, thrusts, and strike-slip faults in the area of Val de Ruz (Jura Mountains, Switzerland). Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 110, 613-630.

2016

2014-2015

• Deng, H., Koyi, H.A., Froitzheim, N. (2014): Modeling two sequential coaxial phases of shortening in a foreland thrust belt. Journal of Structural Geology, 66, 400-415, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2014.06.006.
• Froitzheim, N., Jahn-Awe, S., Frei, D., Wainwright, A., Maas, R., Georgiev, N., Nagel, T.J., Pleuger, J. (2014): Age and composition of meta-ophiolite from the Rhodope Middle Alochthon (Satovcha, Bulgaria): A test for the maximum-allochthony hypothesis of the Hellenides. Tectonics, 32, 24 pp., doi: 10.1002/2014TC003526. 
• Majka, J., Rosen, A., Janak, M., Froitzheim, N., Klonowska, I., Manecki, M., Sasinkova, V., Yoshida, K. (2014): Microdiamond discovered in the Seve Nappe (Scandinavian Caledonides) and ist exhumation by the << vacuum-cleaner >> mechanism. Geology, 42, 1107-1110, doi: 10.1130/G36108.1.
• Sandmann, S., Nagel, T.J., Herwartz, D., Fonseca, R.O.C., Kurzawski, R.M., Münker, C., Froitzheim, N. (2014): Lu-Hf garnet systematics of a polymetamorphic basement unit: new evidence for coherent exhumation of the Adula Nappe (Central Alps) from eclogite-facies conditions. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 168, 1075, 21 pp., doi: 10.1007/s00410-014-1075-6.
• Zolitschka, B., Rolf, C., Bittmann, F., Binot, F., Frechen, M., Wonik, T., Froitzheim, N., Ohlendorf, C. (2014): Pleistocene climatic and environmental variations inferred from a terrestrial sediment record - the Rodderberg Volcanic Complex near Bonn, Germany. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, 165, 407-424, doi: 10.1127/1860-1804/2014/0071.

2012-2013

• Nagel, T.J., Herwartz, D., Rexroth, S., Münker, C., Froitzheim, N. & Kurz, W. (2013): Lu-Hf dating, petrography, and tectonic implications of the youngest Alpine eclogites (Tauern Window, Austria). Lithos, 170-171, 179-190, doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2013.02.008.

• Froitzheim, N., Weber, S., Nagel, T.J., Ibele, T. & Furrer, H. (2012) : Late Cretaceous extension overprinting a steep belt in the Northern Calcareous Alps (Schesaplana, Rätikon, Switzerland and Austria). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 101, 1315-1329, doi: 10.1007/s00531-011-0717-4.

• Jahn-Awe, S., Pleuger, J., Frei, D., Georgiev, N., Froitzheim, N. & Nagel, T.J. (2012): Time constraints for low-angle shear zones in the Central Rhodopes (Bulgaria) and their significance for the exhumation of high-pressure rocks. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 101, 1971-200, doi:10.1007/s00531-012-0764-5.
• Kirchenbaur, M., Pleuger, J., Jahn-Awe, S., Nagel, T.J., Froitzheim, N., Fonseca, R.O.C. & Münker, C. (2012) : Timing of high-pressure metamorphic events in the Bulgarian Rhodopes from Lu-Hf garnet geochronology. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 163, 897-921, doi: 10.1007/s00410-011-0705-5.
• Vrabec, M., Janák, M., Froitzheim, N. & De Hoog, J. C. M. (2012) : Phase relations during peak metamorphism and decompression of the UHP kyanite eclogites, Pohorje Mountains (Eastern Alps, Slovenia). Lithos, 144-145, 40-55, doi : 10.1016/j.lithos.2012.04.004.

2010-2011

• Herwartz, D., Nagel, T.J., Münker, C., Scherer, E.E. & Froitzheim, N. (2011): Tracing two orogenic cycles in one eclogite sample by Lu-Hf garnet chronometry. Nature Geoscience, 4, 178-183, doi: 10.1038/NGEO1060.
• Janák, M., Froitzheim, N., Georgiev, N., Nagel, T. J. & Sarov, S. (2011): P-T evolution of kyanite eclogite from the Pirin Mountains (SW Bulgaria): implications for the Rhodope UHP Metamorphic Complex. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 29, 317-332.
• Nagel, T.J., Schmidt, S., Janák, M., Froitzheim, N., Jahn-Awe, S. & Georgiev, N. (2011): The exposed base of a collapsing wedge - the Nestos Shear Zone (Rhodope Metamorphic Province, Greece). Tectonics, 30, TC4009, 17 pp, doi:10.1029/2010TC002815.

• Pleuger, J., Georgiev, N., Jahn-Awe, S., Froitzheim, N., Valkanov, N. (2011): Kinematics of Palaeogene low-angle extensional faults and basin formation along the eastern border of the Central Rhodopes (Bulgaria). Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, 162, 171-192.

• Frahm, J.-P., Froitzheim, N., Pretscher, P., Sievers, R. & Weddeling, K. (2010): Bonn und Umgebung. Führer zu naturkundlichen Exkursionen. Bouvier, Bonn, 168 pp.
• Georgiev, N., Pleuger, J., Froitzheim, N., Sarov, S., Jahn-Awe, S.  & Nagel, T.J. (2010): Separate Eocene-Early Oligocene and Miocene stages of extension and core complex formation in the Western Rhodopes, Mesta Basin, and Pirin Mountains (Bulgaria). Tectonophysics, 487, 59-84.
• Jahn-Awe, S., Froitzheim, N., Nagel, T.J., Frei, D., Georgiev, N. & Pleuger, J. (2010): Structural and geochronological evidence for Paleogene thrusting in the Western Rhodopes, SW Bulgaria: Elements for a new tectonic model of the Rhodope Metamorphic Province. Tectonics, 29, TC3008, 30 pp.
• Kirst, F., Sandmann, S., Nagel, T.J., Froitzheim, N. &  Janák, M. (2010): Tectonic evolution of the southeastern part of the Pohorje Mountains (Eastern Alps, Slovenia). Geologica Carpathica, 61, 451-461.
• Schmidt, S., Nagel, T.J. & Froitzheim, N. (2010): A new ocurrence of microdiamond-bearing metamorphic rock. SW Rhodopes, Greece, European Journal of Mineralogy, 22, 189-198.

2008-2009

• De Hoog, J. C. M., Janák, M., Vrabec, M. & Froitzheim, N. (2009): Serpentinised peridotites from an ultra-high pressure terrane in the Pohorje Mts. (Eastern Alps, Slovenia): Geochemical constraints on petrogenesis and tectonic setting. Lithos, 109, 209-222.
• Georgiev, N., Henry, B., Jordanova, N., Froitzheim, N., Jordanova, D., Ivanov, Z. & Dimov, D. (2009): The emplacement mode of Upper Cretaceous plutons from the southwestern part of the Sredna Gora Zone (Bulgaria): structural and AMS study. Geologica Carpathica, 60, 15-33.
• Janák, M., Cornell, D.,  Froitzheim, N., De Hoog, J.C.M., Broska, I., Vrabec, M. & Hurai, V. (2009): Eclogite-hosting metapelites from the Pohorje Mountains (Eastern Alps): P-T evolution, zircon geochronology and tectonic implications. European Journal of Mineralogy, 21, 1191-1212.
  
• Pleuger, J., Froitzheim, N., Derks, J.F., Kurz, W., Albus, J., Walter, J.M. & Jansen, E. (2009): The contribution of neutron texture goniometry to the study of complex tectonics in the Alps. In: Liang, L., Rinaldi, R. Schober, H. (eds.): Neutron applications in Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences. Springer, 284-317.
• Herwartz, D., Münker, C., Scherer, E. E., Nagel, T.J., Pleuger, J. & Froitzheim, N. (2008): Lu-Hf garnet geochronology of eclogites from the Balma Unit (Pennine Alps): implications for Alpine paleotectonic reconstructions. In: Froitzheim, N. & Schmid, S. M. (eds.): Orogenic processes in the Alpine collision zone. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 101, Supplement 1; S173-S189.
• Froitzheim, N., Derks, J.F., Walter, J.M., Sciunnach, D. (2008): Evolution of an Early Permian extensional detachment fault from synintrusive, mylonitic flow to brittle faulting (Grassi Detachment Fault, Orobic Anticline, Southern Alps, Italy). In: Tectonic aspects of the Alpine-Dinaride-Carpathian system (edited by Siegesmund, S., Fügenschuh, B. & Froitzheim, N.), Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 298, 69-82.
• Froitzheim, N., Plasienka, D. & Schuster, R. (2008): Alpine tectonics of the Alps and Western Carapathians. In: McCann, T. (ed.): The geology of Central Europe. Geological Society (London), 1141-1232.
• Froitzheim, N. & Schmid, S.M. (eds.) (2008): Orogenic processes in the Alpine collision zone. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 101, Supplement 1, 310 pp.
• Froitzheim, N. & Schmid, S. M (2008): Orogenic processes in the Alpine collision zone. Preface. In: Froitzheim, N. & Schmid, S. M. (eds.): Orogenic processes in the Alpine collision zone. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 101, Supplement 1; S1-S3.
• Pleuger, J., Nagel, T.J., Walter, J.M., Jansen, E. & Froitzheim, N. (2008): On the role and importance of orogen-parallel and -perpendicular extension, transcurrent shearing, and backthrusting in the Monte Rosa nappe and the Southern Steep Belt of the Alps (Penninic zone, Switzerland and Italy). In: Tectonic aspects of the Alpine-Dinaride-Carpathian system (edited by Siegesmund, S., Fügenschuh, B. & Froitzheim, N.), Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 298, 251-280.
• Reicherter, K., Froitzheim, N., Jarosinki, M. (co-ordinators), Badura, J., Franzke, H.-J., Hansen, M., Hübscher, C., Müller, R., Poprawa, P., Reinecker, J., Stackebrandt, W, Voigt,T., von Eynatten, H. & Zuchiewicz, W. (2008): Alpine tectonics north of the Alps. In: McCann, T. (ed.): The geology of Central Europe. Geological Society (London), 1233-1285.
• Scheck, M., Krzywiec, P., Zühlke, R., Maystrenko, Y. & Froitzheim, N. (2008): Permian to Cretaceous teconics. In: McCann, T. (ed.): The geology of Central Europe. Geological Society (London), 999-1030.
• Siegesmund, S., Fügenschuh, B. & Froitzheim, N. (2008): Tectonic aspects of the Alpine-Dinaride-Carpathian system. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 298.
• Siegesmund, S., Fügenschuh, B. & Froitzheim, N. (2008): Introduction: analysing orogeny – the Alpine approach. In: Siegesmund, S., Fügenschuh, B. & Froitzheim, N. (eds.): Tectonic aspects of the Alpine-Dinaride-Carpathian system. Geological Society (London) Special Publications, 298, 1-4.
• Tueckmantel, C., Schmidt, S., Neisen, M., Georgiev, N., Nagel, T. J. & Froitzheim, N. (2008): The Rila-Pastra Normal Fault and multi-stage extensional unroofing in the Rila Mountains (SW Bulgaria). In: Froitzheim, N. & Schmid, S. M. (eds.): Orogenic processes in the Alpine collision zone. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 101, Supplement 1; S295-S310.

2006-2007

• Pleuger, J., Roller, S., Walter, J.M., Jansen, E. & Froitzheim, N. (2007): Structural evolution of the contact between two Penninic nappes (Zermatt-Saas zone and Combin zone, Western Alps) and implications for the exhumation mechanism and palaeogeography. International Journal of Earth Sciences (Geologische Rundschau), 96, 229-252.
• Schmid, I. & Froitzheim, N. (2007): Vulkane im Siebengebirge. Fünf geologische Wanderungen. Bouvier, Bonn, 103 pp.
• Froitzheim, N., Pleuger, J. & Nagel, T.J. (2006): Extraction faults. - Journal of Structural Geology, 28, 1388-1395.
• Janák, M., Froitzheim, N., Vrabec, M., Krogh Ravna, E.J. & De Hoog, J.C.M. (2006): Ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism and exhumation of garnet peridotite in Pohorje, Eastern Alps. - Journal of metamorphic Geology, 24, 19-31.
• Liati, A. & Froitzheim, N. (2006): Assessing the Valais ocean, Western Alps: U-Pb SHRIMP zircon geochronology of eclogite in the Balma unit, on top of the Monte Rosa nappe. - European Journal of Mineralogy, 18, 299-308.

2003-2005

• Janák, M., Froitzheim, N., Vrabec, M. & Krogh Ravna, E.J. (2005): Reply to comment by C. Miller and J. Konzett on "First evidence for ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism of eclogites in Pohorje, Slovenia: Tracing deep continental subduction in the eastern Alps. - Tectonics, 24, TC6011.
• Liati, A., Froitzheim, N. & Fanning, C.M. (2005): Jurassic ophiolites within the Valais domain of the Western and Central Alps: geochronological evidence for re-rifting of oceanic crust.- Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 149, 446-461.
• Pleuger, J., Froitzheim, N. & Jansen, E. (2005): Folded continental and oceanic nappes on the southern side of Monte Rosa (western Alps, Italy): Anatomy of a double collision suture.- Tectonics 24, TC4013, doi:10.1029/2004TC001737.
• Janák, M., Froitzheim, N., Lupták, B. , Vrabec, M. & Ravna, E. J. K. (2004): First evidence for ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism of eclogites in Pohorje, Slovenia: Tracing deep continental subduction in the Eastern Alps. Tectonics, 23, TC5014, 10 pp.

1999-2002

• Kurz, W. & Froitzheim, N. (2002): The exhumation of eclogite-facies metamorphic rocks – a review of models confronted with examples from the Alps. International Geology Review, 44, 702-743.
• Nagel, T., de Capitani, C., Frey, M., Froitzheim, N., Stünitz, H. & Schmid, S. M. (2002): Structural and metamorphic evolution during rapid exhumation in the Lepontine dome (southern Simano and Adula nappes, Central Alps, Switzerland). Eclogae geol. Helv, 95, 301-321.
• Pleuger, J., Jansen, E., Schäfer, W., Oesterling, N. & Froitzheim, N. (2002): Neutron texture study of a natural gneiss mylonite affected by two phases of deformation. Applied Physics A, 74 (Suppl.), S1058-S1060.
• Boillot, G. & Froitzheim, N. (2001): Non-volcanic rifted margins, continental break-up and the onset of sea-floor spreading: some outstanding questions. In: Wilson, R.C.L., Whitmarsh, R.B., Taylor, B, & Froitzheim, N. (2001): Non-Volcanic Rifting of Continental Margins: A Comparison of Evidence from Land and Sea. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 187, 9-30.
• Froitzheim, N. (2001): Origin of the Monte Rosa nappe in the Pennine Alps – A new working hypothesis. Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull. 113, 604-614.
• Liati, A., Gebauer, D., Froitzheim, N. & Fanning, M.C. (2001): U-Pb SHRIMP geochronolgy of an amphibolitized eclogite and an orthogneiss from the Furgg zone (Western Alps) and implications for its geodynamic evolution. Schweiz. Mineral. Petrogr. Mitt. 81, 379-393.
• Manatschal, G., Froitzheim, N., Rubenach, M. & Turrin, B. (2001): The role of detachment faulting in the formation of an ocean-continent transition: insights from the Iberia Abyssal Plain. In: Wilson, R.C.L., Whitmarsh, R.B., Taylor, B, & Froitzheim, N. (2001): Non-Volcanic Rifting of Continental Margins: A Comparison of Evidence from Land and Sea. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 187, 405-428.
• Weh, M. & Froitzheim, N. (2001): Penninic cover nappes in the Prättigau half-window (Eastern Switzerland): Structure and tectonic evolution. Eclogae geol. Helv. 94, 237-252.
• Wilson, R.C.L., Whitmarsh, R.B., Froitzheim, N., & Taylor, B. (2001): Introduction: the land and sea approach. In: Wilson, R.C.L., Whitmarsh, R.B., Taylor, B, & Froitzheim, N. (2001): Non-Volcanic Rifting of Continental Margins: A Comparison of Evidence from Land and Sea. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 187, 1-8.
• Wilson, R.C.L., Whitmarsh, R.B., Taylor, B, & Froitzheim, N. (eds.) (2001): Non-Volcanic Rifting of Continental Margins: A Comparison of Evidence from Land and Sea. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 187, 585 pp.

1997-1998

• Froitzheim, N., Conti, P. & van Daalen, M. (1997): Late Cretaceous, synorogenic, low-angle normal faulting along the Schlinig fault (Switzerland, Italy, Austria) and its significance for the tectonics of the Eastern Alps. Tectonophysics 280, 267-293.
• Froitzheim, N. & Rubatto, D. (1998): Continental breakup by detachment faulting: field evidence and geochronological constraints (Tasna nappe, Switzerland). Terra Nova 10, 171-176.
• Fügenschuh, B., Froitzheim, N. & Boillot, G. (1998): Cooling history of granulite samples from the ocean-continent transition of the Galicia margin: implications for rifting. Terra Nova 10, 96-100.
• ODP Leg 173 Shipboard Scientific Party (1998): Drilling reveals transition from continental breakup to early magmatic crust. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 79/14, 173, 180-181.
• Schmid, S.M., Berza, T., Diaconescu, V., Froitzheim, N. & Fügenschuh, B. (1998): Orogen-parallel extension in the Southern Carpathians. Tectonophysics 297, 209-228.
• Schmid, S. M., Pfiffner, O. A. , Schönborn, G., Froitzheim, N. & Kissling, E.(1997): Integrated cross section and tectonic evolution of the Alps along the Eastern Traverse. In: Pfiffner, O. A., Lehner, P., Heitzmann, P., Mueller, S. & Steck, A. (eds.): Deep structure of the Swiss Alps - Results of NRP 20, Basel, Birkhäuser, 289-304.
• Trümpy, R., Schmid, S. M., Conti, P. & Froitzheim, N. (1997): Erläuterungen zur Geologischen Karte 1:50 000 des Schweizerischen Nationalparks (Geologische Spezialkarte Nr. 122). Nationalpark-Forschung in der Schweiz, 87, 1-40.
• Whitmarsh, R.B., Beslier, M.-O., Wallace, and Shipboard Scientific Party, Leg 173 (1998): Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, 173: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 493 pp.

1994-1996

• Froitzheim, N. & Manatschal, G. (1996): Kinematics of Jurassic rifting, mantle exhumation, and passive-margin formation in the Austroalpine and Penninic nappes (Eastern Switzerland). Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull. 108, 1120-1133.
• Froitzheim, N., Müntener, O., Puschnig, A., Schmid, S. M. & Trommsdorff, V. (1996): Der penninisch-ostalpine Grenzbereich in Graubünden und in der Val Malenco. Bericht über die gemeinsame Exkursion der Schweizerischen Geologischen Gesellschaft, der Schweizerischen Mineralogischen und Petrographischen Gesellschaft und der Schweizerischen Fachgruppe der Geophysiker vom 8. bis 10. September 1995. Eclogae geol. Helv. 89, 617-634.
• Froitzheim, N., Schmid, S. M. & Frey, M. (1996): Mesozoic paleogeography and the timing of eclogite-facies metamorphism in the Alps: A working hypothesis. Eclogae geol. Helv. 89, 81-110.
• Nievergelt, P., Liniger, M., Froitzheim, N. & Ferreiro Mählmann, R. (1996): Early to mid Tertiary crustal extension in the Central Alps: The Turba mylonite zone (Eastern Switzerland). Tectonics 15, 329-340.
• Schmid, S.M., Frey, M., Froitzheim, N., Heilbronner, R. & Stünitz, H. (eds.) (1996): Alpine Geology. Eclogae geol. Helv., 89/1, 655 pp.
• Schmid, S. M., Froitzheim, N., Heilbronner, R., Stünitz, H. & Frey, M. (1996): Second Workshop on Alpine Geology: Editorial remarks and results of a round-table discussion about perspectives of geological research in the Alps. Eclogae geol. Helv. 89, 1-6.
• Schmid, S. M., Pfiffner, A. O., Froitzheim, N., Schönborn, G. & Kissling, E. (1996): Geophysical-geological transect and tectonic evolution of the Swiss-Italian Alps. Tectonics 15, 1036-1064.
• Boillot, G., Agrinier, P., Beslier, M.-O., Cornen, G., Froitzheim, N., Gardien, V., Girardeau, J., Gil-Ibarguchi, J.-I., Kornprobst, J., Moullade, M., Schärer, U., & Vanney, J.-R. (1995): A lithospheric syn-rift shear zone at the ocean-continent transition: preliminary results of the GALINAUTE II cruise (Nautile dives on the Galicia Bank, Spain). C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris 321, série II a, 1171-1178.
• Florineth, D. & Froitzheim, N. (1994): Transition from continental to oceanic basement in the Tasna nappe (Engadine window, Graubünden, Switzerland): evidence for Early Cretaceous opening of the Valais ocean. - Schweiz. Mineral. Petrogr. Mitt. 74, 437-448.
• Froitzheim, N. , Schmid, S.M. & Conti, P. (1994): Repeated change from crustal shortening to orogen-parallel extension in the Austroalpine units of Graubünden. Eclogae geol. Helv. 87, 559-612.

1984-1993

• Bernoulli, D, Bertotti, G. & Froitzheim, N. (1993): Mesozoic faults and associated sediments in the Austroalpine - South Alpine continental margin. - Mem. Soc. geol. Ital. 45 (1990), 25-38.
• Schmid, S.M. & Froitzheim, N. (1993): Oblique slip and block rotation along the Engadine line. Eclogae geol. Helv. 86/2, 569-593.
• Froitzheim, N. (1992): Formation of recumbent folds during synorogenic crustal extension (Austroalpine nappes, Switzerland).- Geology 20, 923-926.
• Furrer, H., Eichenberger, U., Froitzheim, N. & Wurster, D. (1992): Geologie, Stratigraphie und Fossilien der Ducankette und des Landwassergebiets (Silvretta-Decke, Ostalpin). - Eclogae geol. Helv. 85, 245-256.
• Froitzheim, N. & Eberli. G. (1990): Extensional detachment faulting in the evolution of a Tethys passive continental margin, Eastern Alps, Switzerland.- Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 102, 1297-1308.
• Froitzheim, N. (1988): Synsedimentary and synorogenic normal faults within a thrust-sheet of the Eastern Alps (Ortler zone, Graubünden, Switzerland).- Eclogae geol. Helv. 81, 593-610.
• Froitzheim, N., Stets, J. & Wurster, P. (1988): Aspects of Western High Atlas tectonics.- In: Jacobshagen, V. (editor): The Atlas System in Morocco - Studies on its geodynamic evolution.- Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 15, Springer Verlag, Berlin etc., 219-244.
• Froitzheim, N. (1984): Oberkretazische Vertikaltektonik im Hohen Atlas SW' von Marrakech/Marokko - Rekonstruktion eines Bewegungsablaufs im Frühstadium der Atlas-Orogenese.- N.Jb.Geol.Paläont.Mh, 1984 (8), 463-471.